Sussex County NJ Archives Obituaries.....STUYVESANT, Rutherford  July 4, 1909
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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 1, New Series, 1916, Page 102.

RUTHERFORD STUYVESANT, died in Paris on July 4, 1909.  His real name was 
Stuyvesant Rutherford and among his ancestors were Governor Peter Stuyvesant; 
Governor John Winthrop, of Massachusetts; Governor Dudley, of Connecticut; 
Lewis Morris, Chief Justice of New York, and first Governor of New Jersey.  
His father was Lewis Morris Rutherford and his mother was Margaret Stuyvesant 
Chanler.  By the will of his mother's great-uncle, Peter Gerard Stuyvesant's 
property was left to him upon the condition of his changing his family name to 
Stuyvesant, which was done by an act of the Legislature.  In 1863 he graduated 
from Columbia College and in the same year he married Mary Rutherford 
Pierrepont, daughter of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and Anna Maria Jay.  Mrs. 
Stuyvesant died in 1879.  On June 16, 1902, he married in London the Countess 
Mathilde E. de Wassanaer, the widow of a Dutch nobelman.  A son was born of 
this marriage.  Mr. Stuyvesant, who was sixty-nine years of age at the time of 
his death, was a brother of Winthrop Rutherford, who married Alice Morton, and 
of Mrs. Henry White, at that time American Ambassador in France.  He was a 
cousin on his mother's side of William Astor Chanler and Mrs. Richard 
Aldrich.  He was the owner of Tranquility Farms, near Tranquility, N. J., 
famous for its elk and deer park and extensive English pheasant preserves.  He 
was elected a life member of this Society on May 19, 1870.

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